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  • Eloquence Is Power

    Oratory and Performance in Early America

    by Sandra M. Gustafson ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, “eloquence was POWER.” In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible of cultures, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

    by Sandra M. Gustafson ...
    Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic.Though the U.S. Constitution made deliberation ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900

    by Prof Sandra M. Gustafson ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement's consequential emphasis on ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Shakespearean Educations

    Power, Citizenship, and Performance

    by Coppélia Kahn, Heather S. Nathans, Jennifer Mylander, Sandra M. Gustafson, Jonathan Burton, Nan Johnson, Elizabeth Renker, Denise Albanese0, Dayton Haskin1, Marvin McAllister2, Rosemary Kegl3, Theodore Leinwand4 ...
    Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare’s works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Reimagining the Republic

    Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée

    by Sandra M. Gustafson, Robert Levine, Molly Ball, Nancy Bentley, Tess Chakkalakal, Sarah E. Chinn, Mark Elliott, John Ernest, Annemarie Mott Ewing0, Jennifer Rae Greeson1, Mary Hale2, DeLisa D. Hawkes3, Christine Holbo4, Carolyn Karcher5, Almas Khan6, Gregory Laski7, Alex Zweber Leslie8, Brook Thomas9, Kenneth Warren0 ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900

    by Sandra M. Gustafson ...
    Narrated by Lauren Pedersen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement's consequential emphasis on ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

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    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

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  • American Lynching

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  • The Genuine Article

    A Historian Looks at Early America

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    "A masterly quarter-century of commentary on the discipline of American history."—Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review"This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy years in their company," writes historian Edmund S. Morgan in the introduction to this landmark collection. The Genuine ... Read more

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  • Disowning Slavery

    Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

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  • Strange Nation

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